Jan. 6 Committee Deleted Over 100 Files Before Republicans Took Control of House: Congressman

Published on January 22, 2024

The U.S. House of Representatives committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol deleted files before Republicans took control of the lower chamber, according to newly disclosed documents. A forensic analysis of hard drives archived by the Democrat-dominated committee uncovered digital records that were not given to the House clerk, the House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee said in new letters to top officials. “Our subcommittee has recently determined that 117 files were both deleted and encrypted,” a spokesman for Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the subcommittee, told The Epoch Times via email. The encryption means that many of the recovered files are password-protected and cannot be accessed at this time, Mr. Loudermilk told Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) in a letter dated Jan. 18....